Multipoint simultaneous measurement method and multipoint simultaneous measurement system in electric power station, and internal clock used therefor

• US 9,459,591 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2012
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CVEngineering Corporation, Tohoku Electric Power Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CVEngineering Corporation, Tohoku Electric Power Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Sato, Masaki, Yanagisawa, Yoichi, Chiba, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): DO, AN H
• Application Number:
  US13/981,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20130311135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,590 Days
• Field of Search: 702/127, 702/176, 702/178
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 5/00 Setting, i.e. correcting or changing, the time-indication radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 20/02 the radio signal being sent by a satellite, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 20/28 Tuning or receiving; Circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 20/30 Decoding time data; Circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 40/06 by computing the time value implied by the radio signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/753 where the polling of the sub-stations is synchronous
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/04 Arrangements for synchronous operation

Abstract

A multipoint simultaneous measurement method and a multipoint simultaneous measurement system in an electric power station and an internal clock used therefor, capable of performing measurement at the correct time even at a place in the electric power station where GPS radio waves cannot be received, and of securing simultaneity with high accuracy and with ease without connecting a plurality of measurement points via a cable and the like.

Claims

1. A multipoint simultaneous measurement method in an electric power station, comprising the steps of:

providing a plurality of measuring devices and a master unit configured to be able to wirelessly transmit/receive a signal to/from the measuring devices;

providing an internal clock that is operated by time correcting means having an oscillator contained therein and a counter for counting an output pulse from the oscillator in each of the measuring devices, the internal clock being configured to correct its time by adding a difference between a pulse number that is obtained by multiplying an actual oscillating frequency oscillated by the oscillator by a fixed period of time and a product that is obtained by multiplying a target oscillating frequency by the fixed period of time, to the pulse number at intervals of the fixed period of time, the fixed period of time being a time when the pulse number after a decimal point of the oscillating frequency of the oscillator is rounded to be an integer;

synchronizing the internal clocks of the measuring devices by GPS radio waves or by connecting the measuring devices;

correcting the internal clocks of the measuring devices continuously at intervals of the fixed period of time from when the internal clocks are synchronized until when measurement is finished;

arranging the measuring devices to respective measurement points;

transmitting a measurement time from the master unit to the measuring devices; and

measuring a predetermined physical quantity by the measuring devices when the internal clocks reach the measurement time transmitted from the master unit, and transmitting measurement data from the measuring devices to the master unit.

2. The multipoint simultaneous measurement method in the electric power station according to claim 1,

wherein, supposing that the target oscillating frequency is 10^N (N is a natural number) Hz, and an actually-counted oscillating frequency of the oscillator is 10^N+0.1×

a+0.01×

b Hz (a and b are one-digit integers), the internal clock is configured to correct the time once in 100 seconds in such a manner that 10^N counts are made in one second for 99 times out of 100 seconds, and 10^N+10×

a+b counts are made in one second for remaining one time.

3. The multipoint simultaneous measurement method in the electric power station according to claim 1,

wherein, supposing that the target oscillating frequency is 10^N (N is a natural number) Hz, and an actually-counted oscillating frequency of the oscillator is 10^N+0.1×

a+0.01×

b+0.001×

c Hz (a, b and c are one-digit integers), the internal clock is configured to correct the time at intervals of 10 seconds, 100 seconds, and 1000 seconds in such a manner that 10^N counts are made in one second for nine times out of 10 seconds, 10^N +a counts are made in one second according to 10-second interval correction for remaining one time, 10^N +a +b counts are made in one second according to 100-second interval correction for 10th 10-second interval correction, and 10^N+a+b+c counts are made in one second according to 1000-second interval correction for 10th 100-second interval correction.

4. An internal clock wherein its use is found in the multipoint simultaneous measurement method in the electric power station according to claim 1.

5. A multipoint simultaneous measurement system in an electric power station, comprising:

a plurality of measuring devices each having the internal clock according to claim 4, to measure a predetermined physical quantity when the internal clock reaches a specified time; and

a master unit configured to be able to wirelessly transmit/receive a signal to/from the measuring devices,

wherein the master unit is configured to be able to transmit a measurement time to the measuring devices and to receive the predetermined physical quantity measured by the measuring devices from the measuring devices, and

wherein each of the measuring devices is configured to measure the predetermined physical quantity when the internal clock reaches the measurement time transmitted from the master unit, and to transmit it to the master unit.

6. An internal clock wherein its use is found in the multipoint simultaneous measurement method in the electric power station according to claim 2.

7. An internal clock wherein its use is found in the multipoint simultaneous measurement method in the electric power station according to claim 3.